Gordon Whyburn
- Beatrice Aitchison
- Edwin E. Floyd
- M. K. Fort, Jr.
- John L. Kelley
- Alexander Doniphan Wallace
Gordon Thomas Whyburn (January 7, 1904, Lewisville, Texas – September 8, 1969, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology.[1]
Whyburn studied at the University of Texas, Austin, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925. Under the influence of his teacher Robert Lee Moore, Whyburn continued to study at Austin but changed to mathematics and earned a master's degree in mathematics in 1926 and then a PhD in 1927. After two years as an adjunct professor at U. of Texas, with the aid of a Guggenheim fellowship Whyburn spent the academic year 1929/1930 in Vienna with Hans Hahn and in Warsaw with Kuratowski and Sierpinski. After the fellowship expired, Whyburn became a professor at Johns Hopkins University.
From 1934, he was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he modernized the mathematics department and spent the rest of his career. He was chair of the department until his first heart attack in 1966; Edward J. McShane joined the department in 1935, and Gustav A. Hedlund was a member of the department from 1939 to 1948. In the academic year 1952/1953 Whyburn was a visiting professor at Stanford University. In 1953–54, he served as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Whyburn was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1938 for his paper "On the Structure of Continua",[2] and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1951. His doctoral students include John L. Kelley and Alexander Doniphan Wallace.[3]
His brother William Marvin Whyburn (1901–1972) was a mathematics professor at UCLA and became known for his work on ordinary differential equations.[4]
Publications
- Whyburn, Gordon Thomas (1942), Analytic Topology, American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, vol. 28, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-1028-6, MR 0007095
- Whyburn, Gordon Thomas (1958), Topological analysis, Princeton Mathematical Series, vol. 23, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-08054-3, MR 0099642
- Whyburn, Gordon; Duda, Edwin (1979), Dynamic topology, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90358-3, MR 0526764
References
- ^ Floyd, E. E.; Jones, F. B. (1971), "Gordon T. Whyburn 1904–1969", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 77: 57–72, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1971-12606-X, ISSN 0002-9904, MR 0266736
- ^ Whyburn, G. T. (1936). "On the Structure of Continua". Bulletin of the AMS. 42: 49–73.
- ^ Gordon Whyburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reid, W. T. (1973). "William M. Whyburn 1901-1972". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 79 (6): 1175–1183. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1973-13369-5.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gordon Whyburn", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Gordon Whyburn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer